Hit-run driver kills woman on sidewalk

RANCHO BERNARDO  A 62-year-old woman was killed by a hit-and-run driver who swerved onto a sidewalk in Rancho Bernardo Saturday night, then kept going, San Diego police said.

The woman, whose name was not released, was walking with her husband on the north sidewalk of Rancho Bernardo Road at Bernardo Center Drive about 8:20 p.m., police Officer Dino Delimitros said.

A smaller, silver car headed west veered to the right, rolled up the curb and hit the woman, but not the man, Delimitros said. The woman died at the scene.

Police had no description of the care except that it would be missing its outside passenger mirror and have front-end damage.

Police Detective Dan Wall told the media that the pedestrians, who were walking toward a restaurant, were where they should have been, and the driver had no reason to veer onto the sidewalk in the well-lit area.